INTIMIDATION AND THREATENING
Date: 2020-09-30
Period: 2020 Parliamentary elections - Pre-election period
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening
2020-10-13 On September 13, UNM majoritarian candidate in Gori and Kaspi, Badri Basishvili had a campaign meeting with constituents in village Mejvriskhevi. During the meeting a confrontation occurred between the party representative – Vasilisa Jabakhidze and mayoral representative in Mejvriskhevi, Aleksandre Bujiashvili. According to Vasilisa Jabakhidze, he saw that someone was taking her photos from across the street in a car and she tried to find out the reason. She found Lekso Bujiashvili and his co-worker in the car, who reproached her for having a meeting near the memorial for those who died in the 2008 war. According to her, based on the instructions of the mayoral representative, his co-workers were taking photos, which amounts to intimidation of voters. ISFED observer contacted the mayoral representative in Mejvriskhevi, who, in turn, accusied the UNM representative of defamation and categorically rejected having taken photos. According to Bujiashvili, he was participating in the renovation works of a nearby castle when Jabakhadze approached him and insulted him.


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